I Am Anaya Poet Dramatic Monologue

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It Was Written In The Stars

“The further we travel the more truth we can comprehend”—Hypatia


She is amongst the moon flowers glowing 
‘neath the skyline she illumes, lilac fragrance
her essence observing as once b'fore as an ancient 
the above constellations, predestined
 Once more, in early summer thru fall, 
at dusk, and for a single night,
 she bares the sepal,  
a Moon flower blooms
 In the evening as the sun sets
 her shy soft petals imploding by dawn
For a single night, she'll look upwards,
her visible movement  exploding as                                                    
 Synesius, stems erect alongside, 
an admirer of the astronomer,
 an extraordinary tryst 
Both overarching, seekers,
stargazers empirical, seers linking life and the cosmos
 An Ellipse Empress, Hypatia 
explores the zodiac feast, a sterling banquet for her eyes,
pensive process and celebration
effusive cornucopia are her sheer delights, 
 orbits on the locus of the elliptical,
of the planets around the sun
  Apollonius astronomy
her fate written in the stars, I believe now
the cold stones thrown,
 that crush an unshrouded bourgeois body 
nor her exquisite intellect brain,
pleasures a fundamental mind 
takes part in, mobs’ mutilation
  these the mundane 
Her legacy escaped the brutal denial’s 
curves (a plane with a cone) her gifts
unlocking cosmic secrets
 travel is truth unfolding from beyond,
fateful is an air of unavoidable destiny designed,
baleful, fate unfurls transparently 
ere inevitable onyx eyes,
 ere eyes castration
The sea-goat navigates as Capricorn
astrologically inauspicious 
part fish depths never forlorn
 never portentous
The ram’s dramatic energy, Aries
the golden fleece savior of Phrixus and Helle, 
So forth never-ending 
charted alignments propels 

.......It was written in the stars

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Robert Gorelick May 5, 2026 at 1:39 PM Eloquent! Our life's course truly does seem as an inevitable, fated journey caught up as we are in the inertia of the omnipotent forces of time, tide, and space. Alas, the fates, as the Greeks believed, determine everything. I Am Anaya May 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM Ah, thank you Robert for noticing, I love to write about meaningful ones with affirmations, not renouncing her beliefs and who contribute to the world, especially women~ Hypatia is one of those. I find writing about myself or starting my poems with "I" or "My" all the time, becomes a bore! (lol) Bigger things to research and learn everywhere. Happy Cinco De Mayo

Yann Rolland May 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM the sensitivity of the poet flowers, looking at the stars, this is beautifully penned, enjoyed I Am Anaya May 4, 2026 at 3:13 PM This a tribute to Hypatia a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, &mathematician from Alexandria, at that time in the province of Egypt & a major city of the Roman Empire, she gave us ellipse, was brutally stoned to death by Christians for her love of astronomy. Her fate written in the stars~